[New-bugs-announce] [issue6626] show Python mimetypes module some love

[Jacob Rus]

New submission from Jacob Rus <jacobolus at gmail.com>:

See discussion started right at the end of the month at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090928.html

And continued at
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/thread.html

Basically, the mimetypes module is fragile and very confusing code, 
built up over years of feature creep without refactoring or careful 
overall design. I'd like to cut it down to a more manageable code size, 
fix some bugs, update the included list of mime types, and use some nice 
Python features of versions 2.2+. Ideally someone reading the module 
once through would be able to understand what it does.

Patches to be attached shortly.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 91196
nosy: jrus
severity: normal
status: open
title: show Python mimetypes module some love
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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